Today I will be brief; I will only mention genealogies, not go into detail. Hybrid genealogies will not get anyone a room in the mansion of God in Paradise. Paul wrote that you cannot count on your forebears to be heirs to God’s Estate there, not to “give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do” (1 Tim 1L4).
It takes faith in the genealogy
of Jesus for the reward; your own genealogy is of no account. You must not value
that you are the sons and daughters of noble people but are the “adopted” sons
and daughters of the Holy Father that is in heaven, to wit: “You have received
the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, ‘Abba, Father.’” (Rom 8:15).
Adoption into Christianity is not
by the blood but by the Spirit. It does not matter who your ancestors were, but
who you are in respect to Christ. As it is written, “The first man Adam was
made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening Spirit” (1 Cor 15:45). About
Adam, it was written in Genesis 2:7, and about Jesus it was written in John
1:4; that Jesus was the light of men.”
Somehow, Christ is in us, not by genealogy (His DNA) but by the reflection of the Light (1 John 1:5) of God unto people. Paul clarified that ordination:
He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will. (Ephes 1:4-5)
Where would a person look to find
that appointment? Before the foundation of the world! God made the other kinds,
then made mankind: “God said, ‘Let us make man in our Image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion” (Gen 1:26). There was the “election”
before the foundation of the world… mankind was selected above all the other
animals.
(Note that chapter one must be
the foundation of Paradise in heaven because chapter two is about the creation
of things on Earth.)
Indeed, if that is true, and it seems to be, mankind
were predestined to be the holy ones, not even the angels in heaven, let alone
the beasts.
It is our kind that was selected;
those with human genomes — with the DNA of God in every nuclear cell of their
bodies.
It seems that before God did
anything, that man had no seed within him, as did the other animals and plants (Gen
1:29). Only after sin did man have seed within him like the other
beasts.
To validate that God made woman
from the belly of man; it was a type of spiritual cloning, using modern vernacular,
only it was the “Seed of God” that was spread. Apparently, the Seed of God is
His “quickening Spirit” that makes life, not a type of biological reproduction.
And so, it is with “born again” which is engendering by God above with His
quickening Spirit.
To be blunt, mankind was to
reproduce spiritually not sexually, and with the new identity of the woman after
sin, Adam named her kind, “Eve.” She became the “mother of all living”
(Gen 3:20) and she gave birth to genealogy when she created Cain (Gen 4:1), the
son of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12).
Ever since Cain was delivered by
the seed of the Wicked One into the womb of Eve, everything since that time has
been genetically. Nobody, with the exception of pure Jesus Christ, can trace
their ancestry, unadulterated, back to God.
It is rebirth by the Spirit of
God, not by the seed of mankind. Regardless of the unclean genes that are
within us, the Spirit of God can even overcome our genetics. Thus, perhaps
others tampering with our genetics is the ultimate sin and that was the sin of
Eve with the Wicked One.
That brings me to the genealogies
of Jesus in the Bible. Matthew, in chapter one, began the genealogy of Jesus
with “the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham” (Mat
1:1). Jesus was not the son of David nor the son of Abraham, but He, it was supposed,
shared their genetics. He was there because Eve was their kind and as a result,
the flesh of Jesus, although pure, was the same as Eve’s.
Matthew’s account of Jesus’s
heirs was through Joseph who was the supposed father of Jesus (Luke
3:23). Luke presented the genealogy of Jesus somewhat differently because Jesus
was not the biological seed of Joseph.
Luke saw things much differently than Matthew who looked only at the improper paternity of Jesus, He wrote:
Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him, and a Voice came from heaven, which said, “You are my beloved Son; in you I am well pleased.” (Luke 3:21-22)
Luke could have stopped with
that. The “Father” had engendered Jesus from above; that which Jesus Himself
referred to as “born again” (in the English). God Himself had “fathered” Jesus,
but not by using genetic seed but the “quickening Spirit” of the Holy Ghost.
Father God had changed the genetics of Jesus brought to Him by King David, into
pure genetics. He was the supposed “son of David” and was taxed in David’s
birthplace, Bethlehem, as an heir to David.
Then Luke presented the case for the
genetics of Jesus beginning with Joseph all the way back to Adam and God Himself.
(It did vary differently from Matthew’s rendering for some unknown reason,
perhaps because men make mistakes.)
That was insignificant because both
Mary and Joseph were related, and at some point, they as everyone does, shared
genealogy. Luke’s account could have been only that Jesus is the “Son of God”
because he apparently saw God regen the flesh of Jesus via His quickening
Spirit. However, he too got wordy.
On the other hand, Mark gave us a
short and straight genealogy of Jesus when he simply wrote, “The beginning of
the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God…” (Mark 1:1). What more words were
necessary since the paternal genealogy of Jesus as the “Son of God” was direct.
Mark saw the baptism of God to Jesus wherein the Holy Ghost was imbued within
the man.
John was a little wordier with his genealogical account of Jesus, speaking of Jesus (verse 14), John wrote this about Him:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. (John 1:1-4)
There were not just two but four genealogies of Jesus in the Bible! Therein John wrote about the
genealogy of Jesus, and it was not by whose seed was whose, but who could
create without seed in the same manner of God with Adam and Eve in the beginning.
It was not by Adam’s “rib” that God made the woman, but literally by the curved
part of his person
Just like Paul wrote, Adam was
created by the quickening Spirit of God breathing life unto him, but Jesus, because
He was God and there in the beginning, is the quickening Spirit of God (i.e.,
the “Holy Ghost”).
The quickening Spirit that creates
life is the “Dynamic” of God that John called “The Word” and Genesis
called, “The Voice.”
John was the “beloved.” He knew
Jesus more intimately than the others. He realized by inspiration that Jesus
was not the biological “Son of God” but the Spirit of God in the person, Jesus.
Genealogy did not make Jesus “King of kings and Lord of lords” but the Holy
Ghost did that at His baptism, and Him alone (John 1:33).
Mary had received the Holy Ghost
for a few moments, then even then, the Holy Ghost left her. When the time was
ripe, God Yahweh Himself went into the Person of Jesus.
Yahweh is the invisible Presence
of God and hence the “Image” (phantom, ibid) that made the first Adam who
breathed life unto mankind. Jesus, on the other hand, as the “last Adam” was
the “Breather of Life.”
As John, pointed out “The Word”
of God is the Dynamics of the Spirit of God that imbues life. In other words,
Jesus was not descended from God but IS God. He is Melchizedek, who in
turn, Christ was like: “Without father, without mother, without descent, having
neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God;
abiding a priest continually” (Heb 7:3).
Jesus had no endless genealogy.
Mary, as He implied was not even His mother (Mat 12:48). Jesus had no genealogy.
He was like the woman before she was degenerated into Eve’s kind, but that woman
was “naked” in the sense that she had no human flesh; it was some unidentified
incorruptible, glorious substance. Eve had obtained human flesh when God had
grace on her and Adam’s kind (Gen 3:17).
Jesus had no genealogy; He was supreme,
not because of King Abraham or King David, but because He is the Supreme
Being, Yahweh.
They supposed that Jesus was
the ”Son of God,” in a biological sense, but the crucifixion revealed the
Spirit of God leaving Him. The crucifixion proved that Jesus was not the “Son
of God” through repeated generations but was the actual Genome of Yahweh
in this world.
Indeed, Jesus had within Himself
the Image of God, but it was by the same mechanism as the first Adam, albeit
Adam was like God but not God, albeit Jesus is God in the flesh of a man.
I like to use my imagination: The
“Image” of God was literally the “Shadow” (Selem) of Yahweh, the
Invisible God.
“Son” therein does not mean a
created being as John pointed out (see above). but His Genome.
A “genome” is the totality of the
DNA with every nuclear cell of the body combined. The Image of God very might
well be all the chromosomes of God in bodily shape. Imagine, if you will, all
the invisible chromosomes (not stained to see them) in bodily shape; that
appearance would be a Phantom Being, or the “Holy Ghost.” Because Jesus was the
“Son” of God, then within the flesh of the man (Adam), there was the very Image
of God. Jesus seems to have the very Genome of God within His Body because,
as He pointed out, “He that has seen Me has seen the Father” (John 14:9).
Take away the flesh of Jesus, and
what would remain? The Genome of God in the shape of a man, having even the
Power of God. That is what happened on Calvary. Jesus gave up His Power that
was the Genome of God that had been within Him. Without God in Him, His Power
was drained. What was the Power of God doing in those three days? Providing the
Virtue of God to all mankind!
Picture credit: Reddit; "God's Breath of Life"
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